Spirituality: Going home to meaningful traditions

11:09 AM,
Jun. 13, 2014

Written by

Norris Burkes
Spirituality

When I meet folks who are struggling with their former spiritual traditions, I encourage them to reconsider the better points of their childhood faith. Perhaps that's what I was doing last week when my wife and I flew to Charleston, South Carolina, to visit our grandchildren, and also ended up revisiting the Southern Baptist customs of our childhood.

Our revisit began at the First Baptist Church of nearby Walterboro, where my daughter now lives. Inside the church vestibule, a smiling usher greeted us with a bulletin. Like the mimeographed programs of my boyhood, the Walterboro missive told ...